Mercyful Fate and Lars Ulrich - Return of the vampire...1993

[fraternica]

Back from the time when Lars actually had control over what he played.

[apocriff1]

Lars is really great drummer! I love his style!!!

[mortemdrummer]

oh hell metallica rips off everything from black sabbath to dave mustaine himself (i consider dave a part of metallica to this day, it's who they were). Now metallica writes some of my favorite music but lars' recordings generally suck.

[zackattack94]

Actually I wasn't excepting this from Lars

[glentipton71]

Muy currado el video y muy buena informacion.Buen trabajo

[silveraindrop75]

i have this one guitar book where one idiot states that Lars Ulrich was a member of mercyful fate before joining metallica. So many things wrong with that claim.

[windir2]

lars cago la cancion

[sinbysin666]

I prefer the demo of this song from the Return of the Vampire album. There is nothing special about Lars Ulrich in my opinion.

Anyway, as far as I could tell from a KD interview - they didn't have a drummer problem. Lars was just hanging, and they decided to jam this song. Resulting in this.

[Ichiboy900]

I found a version of this song on frostwire where instead of singing "return of the vampire" in falsetto in the background he just makes noises. Does anyone know what cd that's from? It sounds like a demo or something

[envecchosen]

yea but lars is no john bonham thats for damn sure and he,s definitely no Keith Moon but is good in his own respect.But Keith Moon out Drummed a electric drum syntisizer three sheets to the wind.

[Ramtough93]

reasons why they picked Lars: theyre both danish, Lars is a big fan, and Lars kicks ass. 

[bubbabongwater]

LOVE IT............nuff said..................

[TheDieforme]

fucking satanic, i hate bands who profest being stanic, then pepople judges you beacause u hear metal and is that FUCKING bands like mercyful fate and gorgoroth defame heavy and thrash metal.

[powerslaver6]

@TheDieforme no you hear the music if you want if mercyful fate is satanic and you dont want people say that you are satanic dont hear it if you only hear it fuck all the people that says you satanic now mercyful fate is heavy metal and one of the bests but gorgoroth is not thrash is black metal and if you hear heavy mtal and thrash and you are christian just hear it dont let the people that hate your music make you a stupid moron

[TheDieforme]

@powerslaver6 i dont mean of people who really know of heavy metal music but if not about ignorants WHO DON'T even listen to it....

[bajadrums]

lars sucks

[YMasmola]

@bajadrums yeah? go play lars songs. i bet you can't even press the pedals of the stupid you are

[bajadrums]

@YMasmola first of all, learn how to speak in english asshole

[YMasmola]

@bajadrums lol, you learn to speak spanish asshole

[fangopango]

@YMasmola lol actually i can play lars' songs XD

i can play for whom the bell tolls and enter sandman and the unforgiven XD

hes a good drummer

FACT

[twenty2082]

ha ha haa oh fuk i had that same poster, funny

[Kaplovsgab1]

ohhh i seee...

[lordarcas11]

well yeah..... but the thing is, Lars can also write songs.

[Ramtough93]

@lordarcas11 Lars is too clean for sloppy blasts

[raredrumd]

Neil Peart, Mike Portnoy, Barrimore Barlow, Jerry Mercer, or even Gil Moore are millions times better than "Lars." He is such a pushover, and so what if he started Metallica. He gets recognized because of that, but I am still waiting to see something spectacular come from Lars. Nothing remotely good comes to mind. Actually, first thing that comes to mind is Lars stealing the drum beat from Megadeth's "Go To Hell," and in the long run, stole the whole song known as "Enter Sandman."

[OfficialVoodoobiz]

Look, Lars' blast beats and aggressive style revolutionized the thrash metal genre. His loud, yet complex, beats revolutionized Metallica (the, currently, most popular metal band around).

Not a bad achievement in my opinion.

[sinbysin666]

Lol!

[tehgreyyy]

@OfficialVoodoobiz Indeed, Lars played a big part in founding the entire genre of Thrash. Gotta pull you up on the blast beat comment, Lars plays high tempo beats influenced by nwobhm/ punk... BUT he doesn't blast.

[Jordanfan908]

@OfficialVoodoobiz lars has never played a blast beat in his entire life

[shadeofgrey07]

if im not mistaken its because mikky dee just got fed up with King. he came back to record conspiracy cuz he needed the money and i dont think he wanted to tour with king.

[jordmodaemo]

Good thing about lars is that he kept it simple. Something you can groove to easily

[ithomunster]

you need kim ruzz if you want mercyful fate, not lars...

[bLaMeFoRkiLLy]

I like the old version more, but this is still okay.

[jnoble05]

ya you can definatly tell the distinctave snare and bass sond of lars' set. i dont care what any of you say lars IS the most influental drummer and the best to ver live. im not saying hes the only there are plaenty of other kik ass drummers out there.( neil pert, john bonham, phil collins) are a few

[VOSTFR]

Dave Lombardo is the ultimate reference in thrash metal drumming. Lars Ulrich helped just a little, but overall, he's not a big influence on any drumming style.

[ajrapps]

hahaha. theres onl two slayer albums with good drums "south of heaven" and "world painted blood" all the other albums were just fast with not anything interesting goig on...

[VOSTFR]

...in your opinion :p

Keep in mind that, for the time, Lombardo's drumming was something new and rare. You can't compare that to today's standarts. And I'd put Seasons In The Abyss' drumming over South Of Heaven's.

[Ramtough93]

@VOSTFR Battery, Dyers Eve, Blackened, One, FFWF, Creeping Death, and many more made Thrash Metal what it is today, the insane drumming in the songs set a path for Thrash Metal drummers. In all, Metallica would not be here without Lars and Thrash MEtal wouldnt be the brilliant force it is today without Metallica

[IceCreamAllTheTime]

@VOSTFR no, ulrich did the very fast double bass a year before lombardo (ride the lighning - '84 (specifically fight fire with fire, and trapped under ice), hell awaits - '85). and besides, metallica is what inspired slayer to become more extreme anyway back in '82-'83, they admitted that.

[metallicat67]

Neil Peart and Mike Portnoy are loads better/

[Hodongji]

Hey, don't forget Richard Christy..

[metallicat67]

Yeah. He blows Lars away. As does gene Hogan.

[drmygel]

Drumming with no feeling = Lars Ulrich

[postigaceltic]

that's not true man. you may say lars isn't a great drummer. he isn't in fact. but u can tell he feels the music he plays live. He's an ok drummer, but is also a very good entertainer.

[AdamodellReVolt]

Lemme fix that:

Drumming with tons of feel although skill is lacking compared to most metal drummers.

[maidenkid84]

would u say lars is liek the max cavalera of drumming?? and no disrespect, i love max, greatest ever. but he has simple shit , just wondering if im right in my comparison lol

[piratatrillo]

fuuuuck no!!, cavalera is way better than lars man!! are you kitting me?? and better than iggor?? barker from dimmu borgir. I think anyway, cheers.

[maidenkid84]

you know whats weird....i would never thought i would say somethign so stupid lol i hate lars....what was i on when i wrote that?? lol yea the cavaleras are one of the greatest things about metal. and lars....fuck him lol maybe in 5 more months it'll sound worse :P

[stevekiddo]

What's a good drummer?

Someone who makes fast noise and kicks drum like 3 times in a sec? ..

Lars can't do it at all .. but still has a feeling of music .. ain't sayin' he's excellent, but has his own stuff ..

[AniMetalDominance]

then you never heard him on Load because hes a great drummer. the least hes at is decent.

[viewer1a]

Yeah man you are right and most dudes just do not see that.

THey get all caught up in technical skill. Fuck that.

[sean77741111]

This what the people in Sudan need.

[Helldorado72]

Not for nothing but you can't mistake that trademark Ulrich snare and bass drum sound. It really brings out the sound of the song quite eerily, and I do love it as well.

[GameraSith]

My fav song from these guys aside from Melissa and In the Shadows

[zosothebelly]

Kim Ruzz's original drum playing is far better

[Wrathdemon]

Agreed

[lunchboxwhmpa]

By far.

[ado1986ga21]

hail diamond

[wmbdm]

Lars is and always be a Fan of King Diamond,and Bathory,Summoning,,,,MotorHead­.

[metal01]

this is lars best and most fluid drumming

[mrkd]

dont think so

[claudiofebbo]

Great job and information. You forgot to write that Metallica have done a Tribute song called Mercyful Fate. Done in honour of this Band.

[BGF324]

It's a medley of some songs on the MELISSA album and one song from the extremly rare NUNS HAVE NO FUN EP (I once saw this EP on Ebay for 500$ !)

It's a great cover.

[claudiofebbo]

Yes. The songs of the first EP NUNS HAVE NO FUN its on the The Beginning CD. It also exist a (bootleg) Split CD with the Original Cover (A nun whos get burned). The first four song are taken directly fom the Vinyl, I think, because its rough mix. The next five songs are from a band called EVIL.

[Dankjo]

i have seen another cover of Nuns have no fun...on that cover there was a nun who masturbates with a crucifix hehe =)

[claudiofebbo]

The 5 songs of the Band EVIL are also great fun. For example the fifth song: Take Good Care (of Your Balls):-). Their playes some Power Metal. I have no information about the band. I think its also a Danish Band of the eighties who break up after this EP Evil's Message.

[Section31Captain]

Which one? There are two different covers of that EP. I would assume it is the one with the white border which is not as common as the other one.

[bookworm1138]

@BGF324 $500?! is that in US dollars or different currency?

[elbrownyyy]

@BGF324

a corpse with no soul is also on "return of the vampire" 1992 album, wich has many rare songs , like those from Melissa but with different lyrics and structures